Talk:OCR A-Level Physics/The SI System of Units

If you are using English spellings (viz. metre), you should use gramme & kilogramme rather than gram / kilogramme.

Given that SI stands for Systeme International, it is better to talk about SI Units not SI System of Units.


 * Hi, In my experience (and I'm based in London, UK) no-one uses "gramme" or "kilogramme", but use "metre" along with "gram" and "kilogram". Also, a textbook that is endorsed br OCR uses the English spelling of metre, but adopts the American spelling of gram and kilogram.


 * I can see what you mean by "SI system of units", it is similar to saying "ATM machine". Though not perfectly grammatically correct, as a title it makes it clear and easily understandable to students that "SI" is a system used for units. If anyone can suggest a better title for the page that would be great, as I can't really think of anything else. I agree, though, that it should just be "SI units" in the text. --Krackpipe 10:08, 5 September 2005 (UTC)


 * How about "The International System of Units (SI)? Martinvl (discuss • contribs) 22:47, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

Pay no attention to me
I'm just trying out a few colour schemes for tables. I will apply them across the whole wikibook to make them easier on the eyes, and try to make it easier to read information from.

It's a shame that the PNGs aren't trantsparent. :( --Krackpipe 23:05, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Copy-editing
I have taken the liberty of copy-editing the page.

Firstly, according to the SI Brochure (which is the definitive guide to SI), units should always be written in upright Roman characters (Chapter 5).

Secondly, in my view, TeX parses poorly in Wikipedia which is why I have put the TeX formulae on a separate line, indented one tab. Martinvl (discuss • contribs) 21:56, 28 February 2014 (UTC)